Just a quick question on how I'm wired up..

[baseballfrk8998 10+ year member]

I have 2 4 Ohm DVC L7's wired up in separate boxes being pushed by a 2 channel amp that is bridged and I was just wondering how I should wire them and what the final impendence is the way they are hooked up now.

Ok here is how I have them wired up now. Each speaker has each positive VC and each negative VC wired together but the speakers aren't actually wired together inside the boxes. I have a wire coming from the left positive on the amp running to the positive terminal on one box, and from the right negative on the amp running to the negative terminal on the other box. The final wire connects the empty positive on one speaker terminal to the empty negative on the other speaker terminal.

I guess my question is what kind of load am I actually pushing? I'm hoping this might be a 4 ohm load but I honestly am not sure. I hope I didn't confuse anyone with my explanations.

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[misfit138 5,000+ posts]

Questions like this still baffle me. Google is pretty much universally known, so why not give it a try?

Subwoofer Wiring Diagrams, Two 4 ohm Dual Voice Coil (DVC) Speakers

 

[baseballfrk8998 10+ year member]

I understand that.. That makes perfect sense but what I was asking is what kind of load am I actually running with the way it is wired up now? That's how I was told to wire it up. Just wondering.

 

[misfit138 5,000+ posts]

Buy a dmm and find out. A dmm is essential if you're going to mess around with car audio.

 

[Wildbillpb 10+ year member]

Bro you have a 4 ohm load the way you have them hooked is another way to do series/parallel.. I have mine the same way because I wired my subs to parallel and didn't wanna take them out to rewire for a 4 ohm load. Mine are in the same box though

 

[Wildbillpb 10+ year member]

A better way to wire it is take them out and run the top two +and - together with one wire(do that on both) then run a wire from the positive and negative from both boxes from the remaining coil terminals and hook the positive from both boxes to the + channel and both negatives to the - channel on the amp(the + and - channel that bridges it.)

 

[misfit138 5,000+ posts]

A better way to wire it is take them out and run the top two +and - together with one wire(do that on both) then run a wire from the positive and negative from both boxes from the remaining coil terminals and hook the positive from both boxes to the + channel and both negatives to the - channel on the amp(the + and - channel that bridges it.)

I gave the guy pictures, bro. Can't get more simple than that...

 

[Wildbillpb 10+ year member]

Yeah but the pictures didn't show him wht e has going on now.. Which works just not what people normally do

 

[subzero 5,000+ posts]

I gave the guy pictures, bro. Can't get more simple than that...

bullshit, you can simply do for him...

 

[misfit138 5,000+ posts]

Yeah but the pictures didn't show him wht e has going on now.. Which works just not what people normally do

He needs to buy a dmm. Having information spoon fed to you sucks. A man needs to figure some shit out for himself. Especially something as basic as wiring a pair of subwoofers.

 

[Wildbillpb 10+ year member]

True with a dmm it will actually read 4.4 ohms I know mine do

 

[rumple4skin 10+ year member]

He needs to buy a dmm. Having information spoon fed to you sucks. A man needs to figure some shit out for himself. Especially something as basic as wiring a pair of subwoofers.

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and you have it ran in series now and your amp will handle bridged so rewire it pos to pos and neg to neg.

 

[Wildbillpb 10+ year member]

He has it bridged. If what you mean have him bridge it by doing + from box to + to amp and - from box to - to amp on both boxs... Then it would matter what amp hr has since that would be 1 ohm and we don't know the amp

 

[rumple4skin 10+ year member]

He has it bridged. If what you mean have him bridge it by doing + from box to + to amp and - from box to - to amp on both boxs... Then it would matter what amp hr has since that would be 1 ohm and we don't know the amp

yes

 

[Wildbillpb 10+ year member]

My bad you speakers are wired parallel/series not series/parallel. It's the same amount of ohms as I said before and is the same only your speakers are ran in parallel and the series instead of series then parallel. Series/Parallel is the more common

Dual DVC Subwoofer Wiring Diagram | Klaus Audio